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On a system with a CERC SATA 1.5/2s controller, a newly added or replacement drive may not appear in the Add hotspare option of the controller BIOS (CTRL-A). The new drive may be a legacy drive, and must first be configured before it is used as a spare.

NOTE:

CERC 1.5/2s is a software-based RAID solution, NOT hardware based. Depending on the platform, two different ROM versions are used:

Option ROM version 2024 is used on the following systems:

PowerEdge 1420SC

PowerEdge 420SC

PowerEdge 1800

Option ROM version 2026 is used on the following systems:

PowerEdge 1420SC

PowerEdge 420SC

Configure the drive in the CERC SATA 1.5/2s BIOS.

To configure the drive in the CERC SATA 1.5/2s BIOS, perform the following steps:

Reboot the system, and press the <Ctrl> + <A> keys at the same time when prompted during POST.The BIOS RAID Configuration Utility menu appears.

Press the <up arrow> or <down arrow> key until Array Configuration Utility is highlighted, and press the <Enter> key.The Main Menu appears.

Press the <down arrow> key until Configure Drives is highlighted, and press the <Enter> key.A list of available drives appears on the left side of the screen..

Press the the <down arrow> key until the new drive is highlighted, and press the <Insert> key.The new drive appears in the list of selected drives on the right side of the screen.

Press the <Enter> key.A warning message appears.

After reading the warning message, type Y after the question Do you want to continue? <Yes/No>:The new drive will be configured for use.

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